CDs are back! Here are ten essential rock and metal albums you can still get in Amazon's Cyber Monday CD sale before the end of tonight

Ronnie James Dio's addition to the Sabbath fold brought with it a brief second golden age for the band, with his first effort with the British metal heavyweights becoming widely regarded as a classic of the genre No ifs, no buts; this is one of Sabbath's very best.

Hybrid Theory is rightly regarded as one of the greatest albums of the nu metal era, but Linkin Park's banger-stacked follow-up was another instant classic, and over twenty years on, this songs still sound as anthemic, powerful and cutting edge as ever.

System Of A Down's final studio album (so far?) might not be as widely celebrated as most of its predecessors, but it's still packing some world class songs and, in my humble opinion, some of the most stunning Tankian/Malakian vocal harmonies of System's entire run. An underrated gem from a band that never missed.

For many, this 2005 offering remains Gojira's greatest moment, and it's easy to see why: it sounds colossal, set a new benchmark for heavy-as-hell, thoughtful 21st century metal and features two hallmark Gojira songs in Flying Whales and The Heaviest Matter In The Universe. Essential listening.

Disturbed announced themselves on the world stage with this propulsive, thuggish slab of nu metal. The title track and its iconic monkey noises would make David Draiman one of his era's most recognisable frontmen - and its influence clearly still looms large, with Poppy paying homage on this year's Negative Spaces album.

A classic Motörhead LP that polished up their trademark sound and gave it a bit of 80s shimmer, this two-disc 40th anniversary edition of Another Perfect Day includes remastered tracks, b-sides, demos and a whole live recording from a show of that era. Lovely stuff.

Quite simply one of the greatest heavy metal albums of the 21st century, The Blackening confirmed that Machine Head had fully rediscovered the fire that had made them one of metal's most exciting bands in the first place. Essential listening for anyone who lives their music epic, ferocious, ambitious and heavier than a weightlifting T-rex.

One of the most important bands in the history of German rock music and the lads that helped define power metal as we know it, Helloween's first studio album laid their ambitious bare. Almost forty years on, it sounds as epic and bombastic as ever, and this is a particularly nice little two-disc set to celebrate its power.

As nu metal began to blow up, one of its founding bands were already laying their claim as one of the most vital names in the scene, songs like My Own Summer (Shove It) and Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away) rightly being held up as classics of the genre today. Deftones may have become bolder and more expansive with time, but for many, this was them at the peak of their powers.

The last truly great Fear Factory album, Mechanize saw the pioneering industrial metallers sharpen their sound for a new decade. Sadly, it'd all fall apart multiple times after that, but this is still one of the very best from a band that had a profound effect on contemporary metal.